It’s a well-documented effect: business and manufacturing create an ecosystem around the entity itself. Employees go to lunch on their breaks, maybe pick up a handful of essentials at a local drug store and potentially grab a cup of coffee before clocking in.
The most recent evidence of this? Tim Horton’s, a coffee and donut chain, has felt major impacts after Unifor initiated a strike against General Motors at the CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, according to CBC.
“We called them CAMI rushes,” said Chantelle Kuhlman, co-manager of two of three Tim Horton’s locations in Ingersoll. “With them being off work, we don’t have the rush anymore.” She says the stores have lost hundreds of dollars worth of business every day over the past week since the strike began.
Employees on the picket line use the situation as a call to arms; if the CAMI plant does not receive new investment, or isn’t designated the lead Chevrolet Equinox plant, Ingersoll would lose more than it can afford to.
“The morale is very high [right now],” Mike Van Boekel, the chair of Unifor Local 88, said. “But if this plant leaves, the whole community of Ingersoll becomes half a ghost town pretty quick.”
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How in the hell is GM Unifor responsible for loss of business to local establishments?!? When you’re a business owner, you’re supposed to think of these declines and possibilities in advanced. That’s like a a Burger King suing McDonald’s for loss of business after moving in next door. Wtf.
Zac your an idiot. Are you one of the unifor meatheads telling every one that a strike is your best defence in this time of negotiations. Its not GM fault timmies is losing money, its unifor for convincing the unskilled labourers to demand more and go on strike!
General Motors CEO Mary Barra can’t afford to give an inch because it will invite more of the same and with two smaller factories that is also building the 2018 Chevrolet Equinox, Mary Barra has some maneuvering room to try getting the best deal possible; Mary Barra should even consider having the factory in China build additional Equinox to ship to the United States.
Hell Lordstown has been very good at working. With GM but they are stuck with the sales troubled Cruze.
Move the Nox there and they will not do this crap like up north.
The Youngstown area was decimated by the steel unions not willing to work with the companies so they closed up, sold out or went out of business. The area still struggles to bring in jobs due to the distrust of unions coming in again.
This is the most canadian thing I’ve heard in a while.